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Joanne
Feb 122 min read
5 subject and object questions
Are you doing something? Or is something being done to you? This is the starting point for deciding the subject or object of a sentence....
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Joanne
Feb 52 min read
How often do you do something?
Which word means you do something more; often or sometimes? Do you often go to the gym in the evening? Or do you sometimes read a book?...
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Joanne
Jan 292 min read
1 question...Do you have a little time for a quiz?
Few or a few? Little or a little? What's the difference you might ask? Let's start with few and little. Few is used with countable nouns,...
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Joanne
Jan 222 min read
7 sentence quiz using little or few
This is something that I hear people getting mixed up quite often, so I decided to look into the rules for when to use little and when to...
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Joanne
Jan 152 min read
5 ways to talk about location
As well as using in, on or at to talk about location (see below for my earlier posts) we can add 'of'' for some more advanced language!...
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Joanne
Jan 82 min read
9 ways to test your knowledge of much and many
How much ice-cream would you like? How many scoops of ice-cream would you like? We use much when we cannot count the amount of something....
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Joanne
Dec 18, 20232 min read
7 ways to test your knowledge of this, that, these and those
We use the words this, that, these and those to indicate, to point to, or to refer to things that are usually in our immediate...
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Joanne
Dec 11, 20232 min read
3 ways to paraphrase
Paraphrasing a question shows the examiner that you have understood it and that you have a good range of vocabulary. It also helps you to...
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Joanne
Dec 4, 20231 min read
9 quiz questions: its or it's?
Surely they both mean the same thing don't they? Does the apostrophe really matter? Its Shows ownership of something and is used when...
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Joanne
Nov 27, 20231 min read
How or what?
Both are great words to use to show you are asking a question, but we need to be careful with the structure of that question. What does...
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Joanne
Nov 20, 20232 min read
5 examples of the past perfect in action
The past perfect is used to talk about events that took place in the past, but it is different to the past simple. The past simple is...
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Joanne
Nov 9, 20232 min read
3 relative clauses - who, that and which
We use 'who' to talk about people. "The people who live in London." We use that and which to talk about things. "Did you drink the milk...
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Joanne
Nov 7, 20231 min read
5 different ways to use by or beside
Is Granny sitting by the fire or beside the fire? She is actually doing both since in many cases by and beside can be used...
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Joanne
Oct 3, 20231 min read
An hour or a hour?
We know the rule, if a word starts with a vowel: a. e, i, o or u we use an in front of it. If a word starts with a consonant, not a...
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Joanne
Sep 26, 20231 min read
I have done or I did?
This blog post looks at when we use the present perfect (I have done) or the past simple (I did). It is raining and I cannot find my...
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Joanne
Sep 19, 20231 min read
How many ways can you say dog?
When producing a piece of written work for college or a report for your boss it is good practice not to repeat the same word too many...
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Joanne
Sep 11, 20231 min read
At, on or in? - Let's talk about places
In the previous blog post we looked at how at, in or on are used to talk about different time elements. This blog post looks at these...
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Joanne
Sep 4, 20231 min read
At, on or in? - let's talk about time
Sometimes the smallest words in the English language are the most difficult to use. This is especially true when we think about at, on or...
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Joanne
Jan 31, 20232 min read
Closing a business email in English - do's and don'ts
It may sound logical but the end of your email is the last impression that the reader will have of you. It is therefore a good idea to...
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Joanne
Nov 8, 20222 min read
Writing a business email in English - the do's and don'ts for content
You've decided on the subject, and you've addressed the recipient with an appropriate greeting. Now you need to write what you want to...
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